Talk:Dwarfs

Does Pratchett dwarfs or dwarves?--Teletran 09:45, 27 January 2007 (CET)

There are a number of examples of dwarfs. I don't know about dwarves. --Confusion 02:56, 1 December 2011 (CET)

Many words for 'gold' or 'rock'?

"the word 'gold' in dwarfish is actually many different words" - Are we sure this isn't 'rock'? Witches Abroad tells us "It's also said that dwarfs have two hundred words for rock. They don't. They have no words for rock, in the same way that fish have no words for water. They do have words for igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, rock underfoot, rock dropping on your helmet from above, and rock which looked interesting and which they could have sworn they left here yesterday. But what they don't have is a word meaning 'rock'. Show a dwarf a rock and he sees, for example, an inferior piece of crystalline sulphite of barytes." Kellyterryjones 21:38, 27 September 2007 (CEST)

It is also gold. Page 192 Soul Music "Many dwarf songs* are on the lines of "Gold, gold, gold" but it's all in the inflection; dwarfs have thousands of words for "gold" but will use any in an emergency, such as when they see some gold that doesn't belong to them"

• All right-all dwarf songs. Except the one about Hiho.

--Confusion 02:56, 1 December 2011 (CET)

Same sex marriages

I've always wondered how many same-sex marriages there are by accident. Iron Hippo 08:22, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Notes on the subject are here. --AgProv 09:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)